With Boot Camp you can install Windows and boot directly into it, giving you native speeds for RAM, video, and peripheral ports. Once Apple made the jump to Intel-based processors the ability to boot directly into Windows became much easier.Įvery Intel-based Mac today comes pre-loaded with a utility called Boot Camp. There was a time that booting into Windows on a Mac seemed crazy, which is one of the reasons virtual machine software like VMware and Parallels became so popular.